Speaking of Journeys...

I have been contemplating deeply about life and death as of late. As a practicing registered psychotherapist assisting clients in dealing with a myriad of issues, I am drawn to therapeutic work that includes sex, sexual identity, gender identity, sexual relations and (perhaps paradoxically) also the impact of death, mortality, existential issues, and grief. All of these areas of interest seem dissimilar and almost at odds with one another. Sex and death are both “taboo” sub

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security” By John Allen Paulos,...

The topmost on people’s minds in Northern Ontario at this present time, it seems, is what does “going back to school” look like for September 2020. Certainly there has never been a “back to school” time like 2020 in my lifetime. This pandemic has changed the way we think about contact with one another, and has influenced the way that we consider how our behaviour can affect the health of others. We are being flooded with a myriad of information spewed out by social media, new

I have been working with a number of clients, as of late, contemplating giving up the habit of drinking alcohol. They may not consider themselves as an “alcoholic” per se, but they realize that drinking alcohol has led to some bad decisions, shameful moments, and embarrassing occasions. In a society that condones the use of alcohol, and in fact encourages the use of alcohol, giving it up can be a daunting task to say the least. Here in the “near” north of Ontario, drinking al